chew up

chew up (http://definr.com/chew up)

     v : censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child
         for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the
         Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter
         for bringing cold soup"; "check" is archaic [syn: rebuke,
          rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw,
          dress down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate,
          chew out, have words, lambaste, lambast]